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excellent vs excrement
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naturalist vs naturist
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Repetition, forgive please.
ferment vs. foment (a quarrel, for instance)
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WHY there was such a difference in meaning between:
He has few ideas.
and
He has a few ideas.
Mm, I can see the problem explaining that difference in an EFL context! My answer fwiw, Bridget, is that the first version naturally stresses the key word FEW whereas the rhythm of the longer second phrase tends to stress the idEAS - thus the first stresses the lexical item of poverty of ideas, whereas the second stresses the possession of ideas.
I like your old habits btw - exchange them for nun others ;)
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Well, Stales, I didn't know this one. In checking through numerous references, including a listing of the 1828 MW, it turns out that originally these naturists found all meaning in nature--nature was spirit and provider of all. Then it segued into meaning a person who received health benefits from nature. And now, in the latest edition of AHD, at least, there is only one single meaning and that is the single, bare, wind-whipped, sun-glowing figure of the nudist. The old 1828 meaning has disappeared altogether...
Bare regards,
Wordwrapped
PS: Is there any expression "in his altogether" meaning he's nude? Or have I gotten something mixed up?
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Two words that seem to confuse people in French are:
Podiatre and Pediatre
(podiatrist and pediatrician)
Because both prefexis Pod and Ped CAN refer to feet.
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